As a result they’re forever attending seminars, workshops, classes provided by various real estate organizations; they’ve read every book ever written about real estate – twice; they believe that they could be worth $1 billion now if only they had chosen real estate as their college major instead of medieval literature; but soon as they study for their real estate license in all 50 states they’ll be ready to begin.The Guru Junkie – I met this person while I was the designated provider of financing for a guru – back about 30 years ago.

Quote from @Genesis Carrasco: Abel, really appreciate your insight especially coming from someone who has contributed so much to this community.I’m at the beginning of my journey as a loan officer, and honestly, I couldn’t imagine building any long term relationship without honesty at the center.

I imagine you are able to even buy 50% because the sellers are thankful to be rid of their partner situation.

Look it up - software (and I imagine AI) scanning/scraping data to check for compliance. goodness granicus! 

Imagine spending several hours, structuring a loan for your client that makes sense, all for the lender to go around you, use the information you gave them,  and not give you any credit or even touch-base with you and say "hey by the way, your client contacted us directly". 

Imagine the return if nothing was trapped in the investment.  

If you haven’t encountered this, you may want to double check tenants if you’re using Buildium because I cannot imagine this is an “us” problem.

But people have a tough time imagining if their bed will fit in that room, if their coach/sofa/sitting apparatus will fit in that living room space and so on.

Imagine if it cost 1000 to send out 50 letters but half of them responded and half of those wanted an offer and half of those accepted an offer and half of those closed and half of those resold for a net 50k. 

(Luckily, your premium hasn’t gone up that much, so you were happy with that situation.)Then imagine that one morning you get a call (the property is on the other side of the country from you) that there was a fire, and the tenant claims that it was a wire in the attic that the FD found to have been chewed on by a rodent that caused a short and led to the insulation catching on fire… total loss, except exterior walls.You file a claim with your insurer.